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Update on the poetic covers
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I really liked the first one I got, so for the price, I got a second one. I figured that opening and closing the case would have to eventually wear out the "hinge" so to play it safe... Turns out poetic has real quality control issues. In the new one, the magnets that hold the cover closed actually stick out, instead of being flush, and you can feel the magnet inside the front cover. The second one DOES sleep when you fold the cover all the way back, and it doesn't fold square, either. Looks like I just got a good one the first time. As always, YMMV. |
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I really think it's in how carefully the pieces are assembled. It seems that the magnet on the second one is in exactly the wrong place; if I FORCE the cover to be square, instead of where it wants to be naturally, there's no problem. If it slides just a little bit out of square, the Kindle goes to sleep... sorta. It's not always a "clean" shutdown.
I think they may have just received a fresh shipment from the factory. The first one didn't really have any smell that I noticed, but the second one has a smell that I can smell on my hands, even with the cold that I'm fighting. It's not a plastic/resin smell, it almost seems like a leather smell, although I doubt there's any leather involved. |
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I'm unsure of the significance, but the problematical one DID ship from Lexington, KY. According to tracking from Amazon, the good one came from San Francisco.
j, Did you say that you'd exchanged one? Or did you (like somebody else I know) just order a second one? For the price, I'm half tempted to just soak it in hot water and see if I can stretch it into shape. |
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02-22-2013, 04:41 AM | #68 |
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Just how strong are the magnets in the cover? I usually keep / carry my devices stacked, so my phone near my kindle, the kindle in front of the laptop in the bag. Can it do any harm?
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Great, thank you for the quick reply.
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My Kindle is jail-broken with the screensaver hack that displays the cover of the last read book. Since I started playing with the defective cover, I've been experiencing weird problem with the Kindle, similar to what I think soulboogaloo was describing. Instead of showing the cover, it would show the text where I'd stopped reading. I was trying to read last night, and no matter what book I picked, it just didn't feel comfortable. It was set to the same font and size as before, but the text seemed too small and the lines were crammed too close together. I haven't changed any of those settings or the light settings since I found something comfortable, but I decided to check the light settings anyway. I've been sick, and figured maybe my eyes were more tired or something. The light was set on 7, just the way I like it, but I tried bumping it up to 8 to see if it would make a difference. There was this blinding flash (comparatively speaking) and I realized that the light had been turned OFF for an undetermined time. I restarted the Kindle and everything seems to be fine today. Could the defective cover be blinking the Kindle off and on too fast for the screensaver process to be successfully completed, leaving the Kindle in an unstable state? Should I be concerned that there is some other problem just waiting to happen? Thanks for reading. |
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SampleAndy, I'm - occasionally - having the same problem as you with the light and cover, though I don't have the official cover. I have noticed that the 'lights off but still showing text and not screensaver' problem occurs when I do the following:
- close the cover but open it almost immediately (the screen flashes when I do this, as if it was just bringing up the screensaver, but couldn't because I already opened the cover) - close the cover and it doesn't line up perfectly with the sensor. I usually check this by gently peering under the cover at the top of the cover. Then I check the sides of the cover to see if they align perfectly, peer inside again, and if the sides are in place, the screen shows the screensaver. Unfortunately, only restarting the Kindle, or using the physical button to unlock seems to help this problem. |
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